Nutrigenomics is a branch of nutritional science that explores the effects of nutrients on gene function, as well as the effects of genetic variation on nutrient response. The latter, sometimes ...
Cancer is seen as a growing health problem in Africa, with incidences and deaths expected to increase by 70% by 2030 (1). This is due to both the anticipated increase ...
Despite a decade of scientific research, methodological differences between studies have hampered the ability to critically evaluate the clinical utility of polygenic risk prediction models of common diseases. Understanding the ...
The continued threat of mosquito-transmitted diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever and Zika, combined with the development of resistance to insecticides, has driven the need to develop new methods for ...
This blog post was written by Cristina Pomilla, Deepti Gurdasani, Martin Pollard and Tommy Carstensen The advent of low-cost sequencing has provided a deeper understanding of the role human genetic ...
icddr,b has combined both the insights of modern biomedical science with detailed population surveillance to advance scientific understanding of infectious disease, and other public health concerns, within one of the ...
Despite recent declines in the number of cases worldwide, malaria remains a public health concern with 3.2 billion people still at risk of infection globally. Fortunately, malaria is a treatable ...
Despite significant reductions across much of the developed world, tuberculosis (TB) is now ranked alongside HIV as the leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide. There are many challenges ...
The Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) is a complex and diverse area of the genome and plays an important role in transplantation. A lack of bone marrow registries means that variation ...
The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) consortium is an initiative of the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the National Institutes of Health (USA), in partnership with the African Society ...